"Obama understands that."
Well, he needs to send a memo to his fellow Democrats then.

The discussion really should continue about Joe - but at a higher level. The race card just doesn't explain what we saw at the presidents address. Its really not about Joe and the republican leaderships pout during the address. Its about the perception of weakness and division sent to people out in the world trying to kill us. Let's remind Joe and the small patriots of the republican party that they are playing to a world audience now. Obama understands that.

"Are there still racists out there? Certainly. I've met them. They are usually poor and ignorant white people who cling to their race on the hope that it gives them some higher social standing."
The racists I've met have mostly been poor and ignorant African Americans who cling to their race on the hope that it enables them to blame Caucasians for their personal failures in life instead of themselves and their lack of motivation.

How long, exactly, have you been a PC racist? Methinks you've been to more than one Rev. Jeremiah Wright sermon.

The Joe Wilson controversy is clearly nothing more than a red herring conjured up by journalists who love to titter about issues like race. The over-sensitivity to race in our day is a black hole for debate: any statement that strays anywhere near it is sucked in and disappears forever. No one can deny that slavery and racism are glaring scars on our nation's history. But it is admirable that our country has gone to such great lengths to correct the mistakes of its past. The symbolism of President Obama's election is a milestone that - whether you agree with his policies or not - we can all be proud of. Are there still racists out there? Certainly. I've met them. They are usually poor and ignorant white people who cling to their race on the hope that it gives them some higher social standing. No one listens to them. Rep. Wilson has not shown himself to be a racist. If the far-left continues to use race to stifle criticism of policy, then they are no better than the McCarthyists.

Please - Supply us with just one, single, evidence-based example of a school board, school administrator, principal or any other public official who declined the use of school time to air the Obama speech based upon racial reasons.
You put the word "Negro" in quotes. Please confirm that it was your own word, injected into this debate, and that you are not quoting any school official or public official who used that word in any connection with the Obama speech.
Make fun of "the Birthers" if you wish; the last I checked, Van Jones had voluntarily associated himself with "the 9/11 Truthers." And that ended his days in the Obama Administration.
As I have contended all along, people are free to presume whatever crazy theories they want; but a White House job as "Czar" of "Green Jobs" is not a Constitutional right. I don't even know what a "Czar of the Green Economy" is.

I will have to assume that everyone can see clearly now, that we do not as yet, live in a color-blind society! Or live in the nonsense which some call a post-racial society! Racists are alive and well!

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/paul-adujie/obama-is-not-an-american.html

All these are clearly indicative of the fact that racism remains an albatross around the neck of the United States. We only need to just look at the “Tea-Bagers” pretend Tea Parties, then The “Birthers” Con-gressman Joe Wilson outrageous outbursts and now, these marchers one peculiar hue; even as they wrap themselves in their CON-federate flag… what does all this tell us?

Only last week, we all witnessed the silliness of those who did not want President Obama to give their children pep talk about how to stay in school and succeed in life against all odds. Some clearly did not want their children to listen to whatever that “Negro” has to say!

Racists are alive and well, and sadly, in huge numbers!

To discuss whether Rep. Joe Wilson, a Caucasian male, is racist or not simply because he spoke his mind, you have as one of your guests PC racist Mark Anthony Neal, professor of AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES at Duke University. Am I the only one who sees the hilarity in that? Speaking of Duke University, I wonder how those Caucasian Lacrosse players are doing. Maybe Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton know?

I am tired of hearing that socialism is evil. I think people forget how much socialism has provided for the people here in America. We pay taxes so that we can have our water delievered, someone taking out our garbage, and have our streets safe, for one.

And in addition, we forget that 'socialism' protects us from having to work in unsafe environments, as well keeping children in schools rather than risking their necks to work in the factories.

The "ruthless" attacks on the Obama Democrats' health care plans are based on the following factors, none of which include "race":
~The House Democrats' plan involves too much government spending; it will cause huge defecits and/or huge tax increases;
~The House Democrats' plan poses risk to the current system which serves the majority of Americans very nicely with the best medical system in the history of the world;
~The House Democrats' plan does little or nothing to contain ever-increasing health care costs. There's no competition incentives, there's no lawsuit reform, there's no provision for basic no-frills private coverage options.

How on earth does yelling, "You lie!" in response to a policy claim about national health insurance constitute "racist undertones"?

What if Rep. Wilson had shouted "You lie!" in response to a claim about troop levels in Afghanistan? What if Rep. Wilson had screamed "You're wrong!" instead of "You lie!"...?

Just where the heck does "racist" come from in this debate, other than from left-leaning journalists and pundits, who make a living off of such controversies?

If Van Jones was the victim of a mere witch-hunt, then one wonders why Obama would have accepted his resignation. (Indeed, one might wonder why Obama's aides demanded his resignation late at night on a holiday weekend.
Van Jones was ousted because he was an embarassment to mainstream Democrats.
Perhaps, one might argue, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Rush, Beck, etc., are as extreme, on the right, as was Van Jones on the left. (I'd disagree, but let's just agree on that point for purposes of discussion. The difference between Van Jones and the conservative talking-heads is that none in the latter group are working in the White House.
Van Jones is free to hold any insane, pro-communist views he wants. He has a First Amendment right to call Republicans "a--holes." Whatever. He does NOT have a constitutional right to a White House job, any more than I do.

If screaming out "you lie" in a presidential address is not racist, has no racist undertones, was never intended to be racist, then why does universal health care have such an explosive and shocking reaction from the right? Is it simply contempt for the American people or fear bating on the word socialism?
Would it be fare to say that one reason why the health care issue is such a volitle one is due to the ruthless way the right media, Hannity, O'Reilly, Rush, etc., has poisoned the concept of social conscious in this country.

You mean similar to the rights unfounded witchhunt of Van JOnes? Completely unfounded in truth, yet was a lot go on and on till finally he resigned. The right are hypocrits, always willing to spout lies and nonsense and use the media to spread propaganda, but cry boo hoo when its done to them.The left is weak, not willing to stand up and defend the character of its own people.

Bottomline the right has always been a much more effective and much more danger propaganda machine, preying the masses apathy to actually research, educate themselves and get the facts.

From the National Review Online:

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZTQyOTlkZmUwNWMwM2NiNTg5MzRhYThkMjcxN2Q1Mzc=

If we are to really live in a post-racial society, shouldn't we condemn false and baseless charges of "Racism!" along with actual racism?

The only reason that this story lingers is because Democrats and their friends in the media (including NPR) want it to last.

Let's face the obvious facts; Joe Wilson has no history of racism. His comment was not racist, had nothing to do with race, and he did not inject race into anything. Wilson's political opponenets immediately turned his comment (actually, the allegation of racism over his comment) into a fundraising bonanza. To which Wilson's political supporters then responded.

This entire debate goes on and on and one, without so much as a single serious reference to any major politician on the right ever once uttering a phrase suggesting that a black person cannot or should not be President.

The only reason this story lives is becuse The Takeaway, and NPR News, and Salon, and the New York Times, and MSNBC, and other like-minded voices on the Left, keep bringing it up.